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Bill Cosby gets 3 to 10 years in prison for sex assault

'The day has come. The time has come.'

Bill Cosby has been sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison by a Pennsylvania judge, five months after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a former Temple University employee in his home in 2004. 

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The Montgomery County District Attorney confirmed the actor’s fate, adding the sentence included a $25,000 fine and requires Cosby to pay for the cost of his prosecution.

The sentence terms state that Cosby will serve a minimum of three years in prison and then become eligible for ‘supervised release’, although nothing guarantees his release at that time. 

The judge denied Cosby’s bail request, so he will be incarcerated immediately.

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Judge Steven T. O’Neill said at the end of the sentencing hearing, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports: ‘It is time for justice in a court of law. The day has come. The time has come.’ 

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Cosby was convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault by victim Andrea Constand.

Constand had considered Cosby a mentor when he drugged her and sexually assaulted her in his home.

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During the trial, Constand and five other women testified that Cosby had engaged in a similar pattern of behaviour.

Cosby’s defence vigorously denied the accusations, as well as similar allegations made against him by more than 60 women. 

Following the sentencing, Cosby’s publicist  Andrew Wyatt, spoke out and claimed the trial was ‘the most racist and sexist trial in the history of the United States.’

‘They persecuted Jesus and look what happened,’ Wyatt said. ‘I’m not saying Mr. Cosby’s Jesus but we know what this country has done to black men for centuries.’ 

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Cosby has been moved to State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, a state prison, for diagnostic and intake. There, his needs and health issues will be evaluated as officials decide which prison best suits him overall.

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